Sometimes, we just don’t give ourselves the space.
“[In Goods], here these two women are: in outer space, with no space, in a small space, trying to garner their personal space,” Butler says.
“The thing that really excited me about [Goods] is that it’s very well written, [Ferebee] did an amazing, bang-up job with this script, and it speaks to something that we haven’t endeavored before: the future, space, our goods, what we do with them, how we look at life now, moving forward after the pandemic with social justice and change happening all around us, and we have a whole new medium of theater right now, Zoom, and that’s never going to go away.”
“I was engaged in rewatching a lot of 90s science fiction and kind of like looking at it with a more critical eye now, and it was kind of interesting to think about the ways in which science fiction can be used as feminist discipline, because it’s sort of like imagining a different world, and then looking at different versions of the way we’ve imagined that world over time.”
Through 5/30: streaming Wed-Sat 7:30 PM CDT, Sun 2 PM CDT, artemisiatheatre.org, $30.
